Greece
Subtitle: a literary guide for travellers
By: Michael Carroll
Series: Literary guides for travellers; Literary guides for travelers
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781784533809
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: In literature
Description: "If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers then you have a house with no light" George Bernard Shaw. There is so much in the modern world which has its origins in Greece, most notably language and literature. As Shelley once said, "We are all Greeks". This small, rugged, sea-girt country has the longest written history in Europe. Her myths and legends, so deeply embedded in Western consciousness, and her sublime landscapes, so infused with history, have been muse for writers, artists and travellers for millennia. Travelling from Athens to the scattered islands of the Ionian and Aegean seas, the words of literary titans in the West echo through the centuries: from Homer and Plato to Byron, Flaubert and Twain; Henry Miller to John Fowles; the Durrells to Patrick Leigh Fermor and Cavafy, Kazantzakis and Seferis. Their luminous portraits of Greece - poignant, provocative, always entertaining - enrich our own experiences of the country and shed light on a dramatic and often tragic past."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and index.